Hi George. I will try to answer your questions to your satisfaction. It sounds like switching to Ubuntu may not be the best choice for you right now. 1. As far as I know, Photoshop will not run under Ubuntu. WineHQ shows that Photoshop CS2 is unusable with Wine at present. You may be able to run it in a virtual machine (such as VMWare Player, Qemu, etc), but the performance would likely not be what you'd expect. 2. You can play some games with Ubuntu. You can find whether a particular game is playable with Cedega or Wine but using the respective links below: <a href="http://cedega.com/gamesdb/">http://cedega.com/gamesdb/ </a> <a href="http://appdb.winehq.org/">http://appdb.winehq.org/</a> 3. I'm not sure where you heard that. There may be instances where that is quite useful. At work, I occasionally have to use a Windows app, but I prefer to use Ubuntu the rest of the time. And the Windows apps aren't too resource-intensive. So I find the "Windows-in-a-window" solution to be a good one. 4. You don't need to program to use Ubuntu. It couldn't hurt, I'm sure, but it is certainly not necessary. I don't code, myself, and I use Ubuntu at home and at the office now, and rarely use Windows. 5. I believe this works, yes, although you may have to install the necessary components. 6. To be honest, I'm not sure. It looks like Starcraft is officially supported by Cedega, and I would assume that includes network gaming. 7. I have no idea. Sorry. 8. Absolutely. I find it very easy to use FTP and BitTorrent under Linux. There are many different clients out there - in fact, the same client you use in Windows may also be available in Ubuntu. 9. Hmm... another one I can't necessarily help with. From what I understand, the newer ATI cards CAN be problematic. The proprietary driver may support it better than the open source. Someone else can probably speak to that better than I. 10. I found Ubuntu to be very intuitive and easy to learn. That said, it is different from Windows. But not so much where it would be a problem if you're interested in trying. I was able to completely switch from Windows to Ubuntu in less than a day, with the same productivity level as before (this is at work). Of course, that may not be the norm. If you do give it a go, check out the Ubuntu Forums. They have many questions similar to yours that have already been asked, and you may find better information than I'm able to provide. And, as I said before, it may not be the right time to switch to Ubuntu. If not, make sure to check back in 6 months or a year. My guess is that even more progress will be made in that time. I tried Ubuntu 6.06 and it just didn't quite work for me. 6.10 was when I switched, and I haven't looked back. Good luck! - Dale <div>On 4/22/07, Mr. AXit <<a href="mailto:axit@coolgoose.com">axit@coolgoose.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello, I hope, that this is the right address to write to - this was the only one I found and I got tired after one and a half hour if search. I would like to ask for imformation on Ubuntu. I would like to use it on my computer - instead of good ol' Windows - but I would like to get a few thing strait before I do and no one cuold help me so far. I am from Hungary and yes, I tried the hungatian help topics and eaven sent e-mails to a guy who distributes the original Ubuntu CDs here in my city - for free I thik. But he didn't answer to my secound e-amil and I doubt that he will - way too mutch time has passed since than. And he couldn't eaven answer all of my questions at the first place. So I thought that I'll send you this mail thinking it cannot do any harm with it, and maybe I'll finaly get some answers. Here would be my questions: 1.) I use PhotoShop CS 2 on my computer, and I need Macromedia products too for my studies. Is there some way to get these work in Ubuntu? 2.) Can I play games under Ubuntu? Are the Wine and Cedega good for this? Are they easy too use? What about Win4Lin? 3.) Why is it good, to run Windows XP in a window in Linux? 4.) I hate/can't use programing. If I get home I don't want to use it. My girlfried doesn't eaven know what programing is! And we only have one computer at home. So, do I need to use codeing/programming to get things work in Uduntu or it is as easy as Windows? 5.) Can I see Flash and ShockWave content under Ubuntu in the wab browser? 6.) Can I play online with my friend? For example: Starcraft on Battlenet or via LAN. 7.) Can I use emulators to play Free MMORPGs which doesn't have a Linux version? 8.) Can I use bittorent and ftp under Linux? Is it as easy under Windows? 9.) Video cards: I read this problem topic somewhere about ATI cards. I have an AXI X1600 video card. Will I have a problem with it? 10.) AND, the most important thing is: Is Ubuntu the same easy-to-use operating system as Windows XP, just more secure and more stabel, or this saftey and stabiliy has a price - it is also harder to use and one needs help with it from more expirienced useres? Okay. These are the questions that I can think of so far. I hope that you can really help me. I am waiting for your ansver. Thank you for reading. George. -- ubuntu-doc mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-doc@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-doc@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-doc">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-doc</a> </blockquote></div>